Job 19 · Verse 18

Job 19:18

Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

Job 19:18, King James Version

Job 19:18 in other translations

BSB	Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.
WEB	Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
ASV	Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.
YLT	Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.
DARBY	Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me.
BBE	Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.
Webster	Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.

What does Job 19:18 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

18. young children--So the Hebrew means (Job 21:11). Reverence for age is a chief duty in the East. The word means "wicked" (Job 16:11). So Umbreit has it here, not so well. I arose--Rather, supply "if," as Job was no more in a state to stand up. "If I stood up (arose), they would speak against (abuse) me" [Umbreit].

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 19:8-22

How doleful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God! Seared consciences will feel it hereafter, but do not fear it now: enlightened consciences fear it now, but shall not feel it hereafter. It is a very common mistake to think that those whom God afflicts he treats as his enemies. Every creature is that to us which God makes it to be; yet this does not excuse Job's relations and friends…

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Job 19:18 in the original Hebrew

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גַּם\־gam-alsoH1571

עֲ֭וִילִים'A.vi.limyoung boysH5759

מָ֣אֲסוּMa.'a.suthey rejectH3988

בִ֑יVi<in> me

אָ֝ק֗וּמָה'a.Ku.mahI ariseH6965

וַיְדַבְּרוּ\־vay.da.be.ru-and they spokeH1696

בִֽי\׃Viagainst me

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Cross references for Job 19:18

2 Kings 2:23
And he went up from thence unto Beth–el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
Job 30:12
Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Job 30:1
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Isaiah 3:5
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Yea.
30:1,12; 2Ki 2:23; Isa 3:5
young children. or, the wicked.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

Job 19:17
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
Job 19:18
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
Job 19:19
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

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Job 19:18 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Aun los muchachos me menospreciaron: en levantándome, hablaban contra mí.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Même les petits enfants me méprisent; je me lève, et ils parlent contre moi.
German Elberfelder 1871	Selbst Buben verachten mich; will ich aufstehen, so reden sie über mich.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Stulti quoque despiciebant me: et cum ab eis recessissem, detrahebant mihi.